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IN THIS ISSUE: We here on the Left Coast are pleased to present, at long last, Hinchas #20, an eclectic gathering of poetry, prose & art. Elizabeth Jacobson is featured along with translations by Jonathan Simkins & Natalie Sucher. Other poets include Sergio Ortiz, Ari Wolff, Marina Carreira, Marc Vincenz, Asdrubal Quintero, Jenny Irizary, Madeleine Beckman & Mercedes Lawry ...

Prose selections include our serialization of Valerie Jeremijenko's novel-in-waiting, "A Siblings' Story," as well as MK Ahn & Ana Hurtado, along with some stunning artwork by Andrea Lambert & Beata Wehr. The thumbnail illustrations that accompany each piece in this issue are details from Beata's work.

National Poetry month has come & gone & we would like to congratulate our friend & sometimes contributor, Campbell McGrath, for being selected as a finalist in this year's Pulitzer Prize. Some of the poems in XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century first appeared in Hinchas #14. Kudos Campbell.

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In New Mexico, northern saw-whets are not a common sight,
but just now, I see one,
huddled in sleep, tucked close to the trunk on a snowy pinon bough.
It startles awake as I cross the yard to the compost heap,
blinks its golden cat eyes three times, and doesn’t fly away.
The carcass of a half-eaten mouse hangs gutted and long
from the branch at the saw-whet’s side, fastened to the tree by its frozen feet.